When I left off yesterday, I had cut off a bunch of the purple background on my Fierce Planets quilt and decided I hated it. Of course. Big sigh. I had turned and finished all the edges using a bunch of bias tape that had been kindly destashed to me (thanks Mary Alice), and there really was no easy way to add the background back on. But I really wanted it back so I decided to do a sort of open work approach. To add some movement to the piece, like a big planet explosion. I laid it out and drafted some new edges for each little piece.
I finished all the new edges.
Then using my dissolvable floriani stabilizer I quilted across the individual pieces using monofilament thread. Of course I don't have any pictures of that (facepalm). After stitching well across all the pieces, I dissolved the stabilizer and blocked it out.
Here's the final piece, named "Wild Thing". It wound up finishing at 43" x 64". The artist statement reads: "The axis of rotation of Uranus is tilted over 90 degrees from its revolution axis, and its magnetic axis also has a large tilt relative to its rotation axis. I imagine Uranus as the crazy bouncy child, the one who brings chaos wherever she goes; the one who breaks all the rules and succeeds anyway. She is someone who opens our eyes to all the weird and wonderful different ways things can be."
Wild stuff! I like all the textures. It came out great.
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